FCC Targets The View; Former Prince Andrew Arrested & Newsom's Disapproval Rating | Feb. 19, 2026

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Thursday, February 19th, 2026. Stand up for your country. War clouds over Iran. I don't have a lot of update for you. We're going to do a segment on it because everything's being kept very, very tight in Washington and Israel because you can't signal what you're going to do to an opposing army. You have to do it fast and you have to do it kind of in secret. Now I've said from the very beginning that nobody's going to launch

an attack while the Olympics are underway but they close up on Sunday and the State of the Union is on Tuesday. So we are in a window where there could be military action on Sunday night or Monday, whatever. Remember, Iran is eight hours ahead or something like that. And it would be a darkness play. So I'm giving you what I have, which isn't much.

If I get anything further, stay close to Bill O'Reilly dot com. And it's a huge story but here's really an interesting social wrinkle. More Americans are interested in the Savannah and Nancy Guthrie story in Arizona, the kidnapping of Mrs. Guthrie than they are in this. And if you step back and you think about it, I understand why people are interested in the Guthrie story.

It's a mystery, it's terrible, mom is involved. I got it. It's emotional all over the place. But also the pundits that are out there hour after hour after hour don't know anything. They just speculate and guess and gobble up air time with nothing.

That's why we don't do it here. We don't know. Once something happens, of course, we'll report it. But the Iranian situation is far more important for the world, for the United States, and for you. Far more important.

You're given the choice to sit there for 20, 30 minutes and listen to Guthrie or Oran. Vast amount of Americans will choose the Guthrie story. I don't know if I'm disturbed by that. I understand it. It's a little unsettling. People just don't understand how dangerous this world is. Iran's a dangerous place and they're desperate

now. And speaking about lack of awareness, I'm gonna take you into New York City, a place you probably don't want to go to at this point, but everything I told you about Mayor Mamdani is coming true in a lightning fashion. It's startling. And it's not just New York, it's everywhere because Seattle has got a communist mayor. All right, you saw what happened in Minneapolis

You saw what happened in Los Angeles?

This is really

Getting to be intense and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So Zoran Mandami

He's not qualified to run a Taco Bell, much less a city of eight and a half million, the largest city in the country. Now, under his regime, seven weeks again, 19 people frozen to death, 19 human beings, because Mamdani would not carry out Code Blue. Now, Code Blue has been in place for decades. It says when

the temperature drops below a certain point, wind chill included, that the police take homeless people and indigenous people, you know, people just running around, usually drug or alcoholics involved, okay, take them. And they put them in a warming center temporarily. Now a lot of these people don't want to go, but the cops just take them forcefully. And Damian said no, don't do that. Now he's backtracking on it, okay?

But that's exactly what happened happened and 19 people are dead. Now you go, why? Why would anybody, communists, socialists, capitalists, why would any mayor not enforce Code Blue to the utmost? I don't know. I don't know. I do know that this is not a rational person, Mamdani. He's not. I don't know what his thought process is. I've never met him. I don't know. I'm glad I don't live in New York City. I'm about 10 miles away from the city border. It's a whole different world where I am. In addition, Mamdani now says that he wants to raise property

taxes on three million New Yorkers, mostly working-class people in Queens and Brooklyn, Staten Island, some in the Bronx, all right, by 10%, 9.5%. Do you know how devastating that's going to be to those people? To raise their property tax like that? It's like taking 10% of your assets away every year. And he's doing this because he can't afford to pay for his giveaway programs. The hallmark of the communists. Can't afford to pay for free childcare, free buses, free food. He can't do it because the city is already running a record deficit, highest deficit

in the country, New York. I mean, they make fun of California and they mock California, but New York has got a $12 billion deficit. It's never going to be able to pay it off. Even if you sold the Empire State Building and you sold Brooklyn. And Mandami wants to do all these freebies and it takes money.

So 10%. And nobody can stop him. Okay? Albany can stop them. Albany can't stop Mamdani from raising taxes, income taxes. Can't stop property taxes. So this is again, seven weeks, 19 dead, 10% rise on your property tax.

And that's just the beginning. Just the beginning. Now many, perhaps most, of Mamdani's supporters don't own any property. They live in rentals. So his constituency isn't affected by this as much as the others. They're poor people.

That's who voted for Mamdani, and a lot of them in New York City. And they don't care. I mean, it doesn't affect them where the property taxes go up. They just want free stuff. And I'm not saying that in a disparaging way. If you're poor, you need help. And that's how Mandami got elected. Now, just on the basic day-to-day in New York City, it took the city 14 days, two weeks to remove the snowstorm. Fourteen days!

And I told you that the unions aren't going to work for this guy. And as they couldn't remove the snow, or wouldn't, one of the two, and we're talking less than two feet here, like 20 inches, whatever. Garbage piled up. All right? And I wasn't elected. Which I knew was going to happen. So this is just occurring at lightning speed, the decline of the largest city in the country. By this time next year, I will predict New York City will be a fiscal disaster, a

catastrophe. And yes, I know there are going to be hundreds of thousands of people moving out, but Mandami wants that because one of his big issues is housing affordability. If you have all these people moving out of New York, which will happen, then their houses go on the market and then

there's a glut of houses so the prices come down. It's what Mandami wants. Now is he doing it on purpose, wrecking the city so people move? I don't think so but it's possible. But the point of this is and Seattle is going through the same thing because you got a communist mayor there, Katie Wilson. I mean it's just inconceivable. But if Americans continue to not pay attention, all right, to live in bubbles created by social media and to vote for these kinds of people,

these communist socialist people, this is what you're gonna get. This is it. 89% of the Cuban population, 89% live in poverty. You think you're gonna prosper in that kind of a communist socialist arena?

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In fact, last year, didn't book one non-liberal guest on the show, not one. And they had Schwarzenegger on talking about how his muscles are sagging or something, but you know, come on. So it's a propaganda show, entertainment.

That's what it is. Enter the FCC, Federal Communications Commission. It is threatening now Disney because of the view. And the view is violating what the FCC says is the equal time rule. Okay? Section 315 of the Communications Act.

It says, quote, if any licensee shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all of the such candidates for that office." So if the view brings on some liberal person who's running for office they have to bring on a conservative, but they don't. Now there's an exception to what I just read. That is, if you are a bona fide news organization you don't

have to do that, and the reason is because the person involved, maybe in a scandal or maybe in a scandal or may be in a controversy or may be doing something, you've got to cover that and you don't have to give equal time if the person's an office holder. Okay, that makes perfect sense. But Brandon Carr, the head of the FCC, is saying the VIEW is not a news program. It's hiding behind that. And so there's a big investigation

being launched on The View. Now, will this lead to anything? I don't think so. I don't think so. But I could be wrong. I don't know why Disney does it. It's hurt their brands so badly. And you know I was on The View a dozen times, you know, but it was all a different thing then. Barbara Walters ran it. Now at the same time Colbert, who's going to be leaving the air May 21st, CBS wants him out of there so badly, he tried to book a Texas congressman, James Tallaricoico who's running against a whole bunch of people for

the Senate, including Jasmine Crockett, who's a big Democratic primary in Texas. So Colbert, for whatever reason, Colbert is another one, never books anybody who's not liberal ever. But Colbert is obviously an entertainment program. And they're not saying it's news. And it falls under the Equal Protection Act. So CBS lawyers said to Colbert, hey, if you're going to put Telerico on, you've got to put

on all of the other people running against him. Colbert didn't like that. So Colbert pulled Telerico off his show and put him on the Internet. That's what Colbert didn't like that. So Colbert pulled Tallarico off his show and put him on the Internet. That's what Colbert did. And then Colbert went on his show and said this.

We looked and we can't find one example of this rule being enforced for any talk show interview, not only for my entire late night career, but for anyone's late night career going back to the 1960s. But on January 21st, we heard from FCC chairman Brendan Carr, seen here testifying how to purple and nurple. Uh, Carr, he, he issued a letter saying he was thinking about getting rid of that talk show exception. He had not gotten rid of it yet, but CBS generously did it for him and told me, told me unilaterally

that I had to abide by the equal time rules.

There isn't any talk show exception that I can find. He just made that up. But he's telling the truth in previous administrations didn't enforce the rules. But there were very few of these kinds of controversies. But he's right. Colbert's right. They didn't enforce, but there's no written exception that I can find. I could be wrong. If I am, I'll tell you. So what is happening here is the Trump administration is so angry about how the media, corporate

media, Disney, CBS, NBC, all of them, CNN, have treated him that they're taking the letter of the law and enforcing it That's what's happening Epstein This story is never gonna go away it's gonna be like the JFK assassination years and years and years and years of stuff

Anyway, Prince Andrew has been arrested. He's not a prince anymore. He got booted out of the prince thing. So he's just Andrew. So he's been arrested. But it's different to be arrested in England than it is in the United States. So they can only hold you one day. All right. And they haven't charged Andrew with anything. What we understand is that he was in 2010, Andrew, a quote, special envoy for international trade.

And he dealt with Epstein on that. I don't know how. Okay. And anyway, so there it looks like they're trying to get Andrew and put him in prison because everybody knows Unfortunately that Andrew did commit crimes and got away with him Now that's true, in my opinion.

I can't prove it, but this guy and Epstein, you know, if it walks like a duck, all of that. But I can't prove it. Anyway, I don't expect him to be charged, Andrew, but maybe they will. I think they're trying to just tamp down a British outrage because the public's outraged over there. All right, new poll Reuters, so-so poll.

1117 respondents talking about Epstein. First question, the Epstein files show that powerful people are rarely held accountable. Strongly agree 69%. Whoa. Somewhat agree 17%. Disagree 11%. So that's what drives this story. Everybody believes that the wealthy and powerful got away with something here. Second question, the files have lowered my trust in political business leaders. Strongly agree 53, somewhat agree 24, disagree 19. Was it fixed in? Yes, to some extent, because Epstein got tried in Florida, that should have been a federal

beef. He got a very light term for what he did with the underage girls. Then he gets out, does the same thing again, and a whole bunch of powerful people hung around with him, and none of them were indicted with one caveat. In order to make a case the Justice Department has to have a complaining witness. So you have to go in and file a criminal complaint against Andrew or whoever else harmed you and that has not happened and

That's what's holding all of this stuff up

so if somebody comes forward and said Andrew did this to me on this date and

I was 15 You got adjudicated

But so far we don't have that record. Doesn't mean it didn't happen, but it, you know, there is a stair step to the criminal justice system. But I do believe that a lot of authorities in Florida and the federal government, remember, Biden didn't do anything about this for four years. You never heard this because the Clintons were involved. And the Clintons will have to testify next week. But they did look away. Let's face it, the US economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war shaking the markets, and meanwhile China is dumping the dollar

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Okay, final thought of the day. If you spend any time on social media, you know that a bunch of high-profile folks that have various programs and forums feud from time to time, call each other names, and going on 30 years.

I did it a little bit, and then I figured out how dumb it was to do. So we don't do that anymore unless somebody's hurting you. Somebody's hurting you, I'll take them on. But back and forth, I understand the appeal of it. Everybody likes a good show.

So I've signed WABC with Sid Rosenberg. I do that every Thursday morning and here's what I said about it. So the feuding helps the people on both sides. It brings attention to them. And it's so hard to get an audience now,

because it's fragmented across the board. Everything's blown up. And when Trump leaves, it's going to be a debacle for television news. It's so hard that if you want to get attention, you throw a hand grenade at somebody and then that somebody replies that's what's going on now that doesn't offend me I don't get involved with it but if you guys want to brawl it out okay that's okay with me but I'm not going to do it and it does get pretty nasty sometimes, but, you know, these very hard to get people's attention now in this country where we live in.

There are a few of us who command attention because we've been around so long. I hope you saw the Cuomo program on News Nation last night with Stephen A. Smith and me. It was so funny. I really you know, that's worth looking up. And, you know, so people know us. But other people want to get attention, that's the quickest way to get it is to go in a slash and burn. So that's what's going on. All right, I want you to have a nice weekend.

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